#Belonging

Belonging as Healing for the Human Heart

Maya Angelou’s insight begins with a simple but profound truth: emotional healing rarely happens in isolation. By calling belonging “the best medicine,” she suggests that the heart is restored not only through comfort, b...

Belonging as a Way of Living

At first glance, Parker J. Palmer’s line shifts belonging away from membership and toward practice.

Human Life Is Bound by Shared Belonging

John Donne begins by dismantling the fantasy of complete self-sufficiency. To say that no man is an island is to argue that human beings cannot exist in any meaningful sense apart from others; our identities, duties, and...

Belonging Must Be Built in Real Life

Samuel J. Abrams’s line pushes back against a modern fantasy: that loneliness can be solved as conveniently as food delivery or ride-hailing.

Love as a Quiet Web of Belonging

bell hooks presents love not as a private feeling alone, but as a widening awareness that loosens the grip of self-absorption. In this view, to love is to realize that our fears and anxieties, while real, do not define t...

Belonging to the World Through Attentive Living

Mary Oliver’s line begins with a deceptively simple instruction: the ‘real work’ is not conquest, achievement, or self-display, but learning to see. By telling us to look at the world, she shifts attention outward, away...

Understanding Others Opens the Door to Belonging

Bell Hooks shifts the focus of human connection away from self-assertion and toward shared discovery. Rather than framing belonging as something we earn by being accepted, she suggests it emerges when we genuinely try to...